"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message: With his own words which have won thousands for ChristEllis, William T. (William Thomas)
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"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message: With his own words which have won thousands for Christ
Ellis, William T. (William Thomas)
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography; Evangelists -- United States -- Biography; Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935
"O Lord, bend over the battlements of glory and hear the cry of old
Pittsburgh. O Lord, do you hear us? Lord, save tens of thousands of
souls in this old city. Lord, everybody is helping. Lord, they are
keeping their churches closed so tight that a burglar couldn't get in
with a jimmy. Lord, the angels will shout to glory and the old devil
will say, 'What did they shut up the churches of Pittsburgh for, when
they have so many good preachers, and build a Tabernacle and bring a
man on here to take the people away from me? O Lord, we'll win this
whisky-soaked, vice-ridden old city of Pittsburgh and lay it at your
feet and purify it until it is like paraffine."
Sunday's sermon on prayer is entitled,
"TEACH US TO PRAY"
We live and develop physically by exercise. We are saved by faith, but
we must work out our salvation by doing the things God wills. The more
we do for God, the more God will do through us. Faith will increase by
experience.
If you are a stranger to prayer you are a stranger to the greatest
source of power known to human beings. If we cared for our physical
life in the same lackadaisical way that we care for our spiritual, we
would be as weak physically as we are spiritually. You go week in and
week out without prayer. I want to be a giant for God. You don't even
sing; you let the choir do it. You go to prayer-meeting and offer no
testimony.
You are a stranger to the great privilege that is offered to human
beings. Some of the greatest blessings that people enjoy come from
prayer. In earnest prayer you think as the Lord directs, and lose
yourself in him.
Some people say: "It's no use to pray. The Lord knows everything,
anyway." That's true. He does. He is not limited, as I am limited. He
knows everything and has known it since before the world was. We don't
know everybody who is going to be converted at this revival, but that
doesn't relieve us of our duty. We don't know, and we must do the work
he has commanded us to do.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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